Countdown by Travis Hill

Author:Travis Hill [Hill, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi/Romance
Publisher: Travis Hill
Published: 2016-03-13T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Departure: -07h 11m 00s

I peeked around the blocks of concrete that had collapsed on each other during a previous battle. The barrier was just up the street. If there was another way out of The Bower, Melly either didn’t know about it, or didn’t bother to ever tell anyone else.

At least thirty blockers from the Death Lords were bunched up in blobs twenty meters ahead of us. They (and we) were watching a rival gang of scavs that wore no colors or symbols. The scavs sniffed up and down the road near the barrier as if they knew something or someone was coming.

“What the hell are we going to do?” I asked. I checked the chron Ebbers had strapped to my wrist that let me know I had seven hours before my timer expired.

“We’re going to wait,” she whispered without looking at me.

“How long?” I persisted. “Clock is ticking.”

“I know.” I felt her hand clutch my shin, the squeeze conveying her concern as well as an apology for watching the gangers instead of paying attention to me. “Soon.”

“What are they waiting for?”

“I don’t know. The Death Lords have numbers and firepower unless they know something about the scavs we don’t.”

As if on cue, a grinding, whining noise filled the air. I watched as half a dozen Guardians touched down at the barrier’s entrance.

“Shit,” Melly grunted. “What the fuck do they want?”

We watched for another hour, none of the three groups making a move, other than the scavs who crawled all over the area. They must have known about the Death Lords, as they steered clear of our side of the entrance. Five minutes later, Melly lightly whistled at the group of blockers ahead of us. I froze. I wanted to shake her for giving away our position, but she only turned back long enough to smile at me. I relaxed when she gave me a wink. She had a plan.

“You’re fucking kidding me, right?” a man’s voice said from a few feet away, just loud enough for us to hear.

“Howdy, Griff,” Melly said in a cheerful voice.

“What the hell do you want?” He snapped his fingers, bringing at least a dozen Death Lords within a few meters of us, the rest continuing to keep an eye on the scavs and Guardians.

“I’ve got a proposition for you,” she said casually.

“I’ve got one for you,” Griff rumbled. “How about you step out and I put a bullet in your fuckin’ head?”

“Now, Griff,” Melly said, chiding the blockers’ leader. “I know we’ve had our differences, but this is important.”

“As important as when you wasted an entire chapter of my people?”

“Okay, hold grudges if you want,” she said. “But then you’ll miss out on some Guardian tech.”

“We don’t have enough firepower up here to take on the six of them,” Griff replied, though his voice couldn’t hide his interest in the chance to acquire Guardian tech.

“We do with this,” Melly said and held up the implosion grenade.

A sudden shuffling of feet and a low squawk made me smile.

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